Behave Yourself!

Published: March 1, 2021, 12:01 a.m.

b"2 nuggets of wisdom from Santa Monica:\\nCalmly and reverently carrying on, holding your center in love, no matter what is going on around you in the outside world.\\nIt is an honor to be invited to someone\\u2019s home. Treat it as such.\\nWe also talk about \\u201centitlement\\u201d and what that means. What are we entitled to in life? This leads us to the topic of appreciation.\\nThis week we travel to different countries (via a book and our kitchen table) to discuss how we\\u2019re supposed to behave in different countries. If we are in quarantine and can\\u2019t travel for now, might as well brush up on etiquette from different countries. Which countries do you greet with a handshake? Who kisses once on one cheek and twice on the other cheek, hold hands, not hold hands, late or punctual, to gift or not to gift when visiting someone\\u2019s house, where to not use your hands for gestures as you speak, eye contact or no eye contact, to say yes or no thank you when you are offered something, to use a fork or spoon, to compliment or not to compliment\\u2026every culture is different. We need to behave ourselves, understand each other\\u2019s customs, marvel in each other\\u2019s beauty and enjoy each other\\u2019s company when we get together again.\\n\\xa0\\nSnippets from our talk: To take one step towards the next step; to go from left foot to right foot, is all about imbalance. It's a leap of faith because in between the steps, you don't have any balance at all; no connection to the earth. You're basically mid-flight. We work with that imbalance and get to a point where it becomes a beautiful, graceful step.\\nWalking is really kind of this controlled fall.\\nEverything is always in a state of imbalance. Just make the world more beautiful, and in a reverent way, hold that beauty until that beauty, that love, transcends everything. Even if you have misunderstandings and conflict, if it is coming from a place of love, it will be understood.\\n\\u201cIf you have no peace in is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.\\u201d - Mother Theresa\\n\\u201cYour words have power. Use them wisely.\\u201d \\xa0- anonymous.\\n\\u201cRaise your word, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.\\u201d\\xa0 - Rumi.\\nReach out to us: www.ourfriendlyworld.com\\nInsta: @befriendlyworld\\nTwitter: FriendleeBe"